United States Fifth Circuit

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act applies to an oil rig jacked-up over the outer continental shelf, and thus the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act applied to the suit involving worker injured on such a rig.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2002
• Published 01/31/2002

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges, and FISH, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jennifer Elmer Michel (argued), Edwin G. Preis, Jr., Preis, Kraft & Roy, Lafayette, LA, for Frank's Casing Crew & Rental Tools, Inc., Daniel E. Knowles, III, Brien J. Fricke (argued), Burke & Mayer, New Orleans, LA, for R&B Falcon Drilling USA, Inc., Richard C. Rutledge, III, Drucker, Rutledge, Ward & Smith, The Woodlands, TX, Karen Ann Lister, Wetzel, Henri & Drucker, Houston, TX, for A&B Builders, Inc., Amicus Curiae., Thomas T. Hutcheson, Locke Liddell & Sapp, Houston, TX, for Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Kenneth Ross Citti, Citti & Associates, Houston, TX, for Diamond Offshore Co.